McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive on Minimum Wage
JORDAN WEISSMANNJUL
In a financial planning guide for its workers, the company accidentally illustrates precisely how impossible it is to scrape by on a fast food paycheck.
Well this is both embarrassing and deeply telling. In what appears to have been a gesture of goodwill gone haywire, McDonald's recently teamed up with Visa to create a financial planning site for its low-pay workforce. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the thing seems to have been literally incapable of imagining of how a fast food employee could survive on a minimum wage income.
As ThinkProgress and other outlets have reported, the site includes a sample budget that, among other laughable assumptions, presumes that workers will have a second job.
Read the entire report here.
4 comments:
I think they are assuming there will be 2 workers in the household, which is rarely the case with single parent homes, which is the status of a signifcant majority of those in poverty. Because otherwise they are suggesting that someone could work 80 hours a week, even that it should be considered normal.
A job at McDonalds is meant to train a teenager how to get up in the morning and not to support a family.
agreed- the problem is that many folks have zero skills to offer companies so they can secure a living wage job.
training programs such as the citysquare computer class are great- however 10 weeks can only teach so much.
I do believe that Citysquare also has low skill jobs that only pay $10 per hour with no benefits like hioliday/PTO or health.- hopefully these are folks in 2 parent households.
the wages earned at McDonalds are about $2 less per hour.
Great!
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